Impeachment call cancels ski trips

Vail Daily News ^ | July 25, 2007 | Allen Best

[mrmargaritaville]

yes and he should be introduced to a unique idea-that “words (and actions) have consequences”.

[BluH2o]

Each winter my wife and I ski with another couple, usually four or five days, one year Utah, the next Colorado ... varying the ski resorts in each state. Last winter we planned to ski Telluride but for the first time in several years, due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to cancel the annual ski vacation. Telluride was top of the list for next February but having read this article, I can assure you, Telluride has been dropped from consideration.

[BluH2o]

One of her observations is that Liberal dominated areas of the Nation tend to discourage local manufacturing businesses through taxation and onerous Environmental laws to allegedly maintain a “Pristine” environment, thus no such businesses exist in such areas to support the local economies. Telluride is one of those she mentions.

Telluride is hardly alone in that regard ... nearly all resort areas are strong consumer areas with little manufacturing. Telluride perhaps more so because it's in a fairly remote area of Colorado, not easily accessible.
In terms of backhaul, or lack of same, a better example would be the New England area, especially MA. T/L carriers are forced to charge rates into New England that are twice what they charge on freight going out of this area ... that is, if they can find a backhaul load.

[prairiebreeze]

I know a woman that lives in Telluride. She's a flaming lib activist. She also has significant psychiatric/personality disorder issues and feeds into this with the leftist moon-battery she subscribes to.

Sad, because if she can't get a grip she's going to end up losing a LOT.

Probably a similarity to the town government.

[rockinqsranch]

“In terms of backhaul, or lack of same, a better example would be the New England area, especially MA. T/L carriers are forced to charge rates into New England that are twice what they charge on freight going out of this area ... that is, if they can find a backhaul load.”

She’s been with the company 30 years and has seen the before and after of the influx and resulting difficulties related to Liberal migration to various regions around the Nation.

PNW region is difficult to gain backhauls as well and often a moratorium is placed upon freight booked into that area as the trucks get there, but cannot get backhauls out. Imagine a portion of ones fleet the size of many smaller trucking companies sitting in one district because there isn’t any freight to haul out. Especially today with the fuel prices sky high, it costs way too much to deadhead.

[tom h]

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And to prove that liberals have strength in their convictions only if it doesn't affect their pocketbook, they will reverse themselves next week.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Doesn’t Telluride officials have things they should be interested in? Police protection, garbage pick up fees, zoning ordinances? It is probably why the Constitution does not give Telluride the power to impeach eh?

[TatieBug]

Thanks for this link...just sent a nice email asking them to consider who “carries the weight” of their paychecks and other city bills and it certainly isn’t the homeless and wished them good luck.

[bt_dooftlook]

My comment -

"Thank you for publicly calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice-President Cheney.

It reinforced how fundamentally non-serious you are. Skiing is a recreation paid for out of discretionary income - please be assured that I, along with my family and friends, will find other, better, more welcoming, places to spend money.

I hope your smugness is sufficient to keep you feeling "warm and fuzzy" next winter..."

[george76]

[george76]

Sales taxes pay the bills to run the town.

It's the vacationers who pay the freight; not the residents.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Didn’t John Galt go to Telluride?

[wireplay]

Resort areas in Colorado are populated with the out-of-towners who reside there in seasons or a lot of young people who work at the resorts. There are others but that accounts for a good chunk.

May I suggest Copper Mountain, Beaver Creek, or Vail as good alternatives to Telluride? Breckenridge is also a lot of fun. All of the above are easy to get to from Denver or Colorado Springs and all are very tourist friendly.

Telluride is so beautiful and we were planning on driving over this summer. I think I will instead go to Santa Fe.

[Coldwater Creek]

I live in the Memphis area, and the only thing that keeps me here is the grandkids!

[Gondring]

This means that trucking in the necessities of life to such an area with no freight for the truckers to backhaul out forces the trucking companies to “Deadhead” usually hundreds of miles to other States/locations for freight to haul.

Oh, but with biodiesel or hybrid trucks, then they aren't causing much pollution as they run empty... They do use hybrid trucks, don't they? ;-)